LAKE FOREST, CA \u2014 The Orange County community is rallying to support an 81-year-old man who was critically injured in Lake Forest after being struck by an off-highway motorcycle apparently driven by a 14-year-old boy. <\/p>\n
Ashman was walking home from school when he was hit near Toledo Way and Ridge Route Drive, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. <\/p>\n
Police said the boy struck him while riding what was originally reported as an e-bike but later found to be an off-highway motorcycle \u2014 a vehicle prohibited on public roadways in the United States.<\/p>\n
The teen fled the scene but was later identified and arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run causing injury and reckless driving resulting in injury, deputies said. <\/p>\n
“Our community was shaken this week by a tragic accident,” the GoFundMe reads. “Ed is currently in critical condition and is fighting through a series of severe injuries.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE FOREST, CA \u2014 The Orange County community is rallying to support an 81-year-old man who was critically…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-277546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}